Daniel Lenton

Founder at Unify, where we're building neural routers to send each prompt to the best LLM.

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Research and Publications
Accelerating Deep Learning using Ivy
Guillermo Sanchez-Brizuela, Ved Patwardhan, Matthew Barrett, Paul Anderson, Mustafa Hani, Daniel lenton,
NeurIPS, 2023
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Ivy enables the integration of code from one ML framework into another, speeding up development and also model inference.

End-to-End Egospheric Spatial Memory
Daniel lenton, Stephen James, Ronald Clark, Andrew Davison
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
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ESM encodes the memory in an ego-sphere around the agent, enabling expressive 3D representations. ESM can be trained end-to-end via either imitation or reinforcement learning, and improves both training efficiency and final performance against other memory baselines on visuomotor control tasks.

Unsupervised Path Regression Networks
Michal Pandy, Daniel lenton, Ronald Clark
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
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We demonstrate that challenging shortest path problems can be solved via direct spline regression from a neural network, trained in an unsupervised manner without requiring ground truth optimal paths for training. To achieve this, we derive a geometry-dependent optimal cost function whose minima guarantees collision-free solutions.

Waypoint Planning Networks
Alexandru-Iosif Toma, Hussein Ali Jaafar, Hao-Ya Hsueh, Stephen James, Daniel lenton, Ronald Clark, Sajad Saeedi,
International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR), 2021
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Waypoint Planning Networks, or WPN, is a hybrid motion planning algorithm based on LSTMs with a local kernel, a classic algorithm such as A*, and a global kernel using a learned algorithm. WPN produces a more computationally efficient and robust solution than other learned approaches.

MoreFusion: Multi-object Reasoning for 6D Pose Estimation from Volumetric Fusion
Kentaro Wada, Edgar Sucar, Stephen James, Daniel lenton, Andrew Davison
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
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MoreFusion makes 3D object pose proposals from single RGB-D views, accumulates pose estimates and non-parametric occupancy information from multiple views as the camera moves, and performs joint optimization to estimate consistent, non-intersecting poses for multiple objects in contact.